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Sunday Sep 30, 2007

SSL Termination at Load Balancer between Gateway and Portal Server means that SSL traffic between Gateway and the Portal Server is terminated at the Load Balancer. SSL has an overhead of encryption/decryption which affects performance. This article provides steps to install this scenario.

There might be other ways to install this scenario but this is the simplest approach to achieve this.

Assume there are two instances of Portal PS1 and PS2 on Node1 and Node2 respectively. Gateway is on Node3 and Load Balancer on Node4 between Gateway and Portal Server Instances

Access Manager(AM) instances are on Portal Server (PS) instances. Assume there are two instances for AM and PS.

1) Install PS, AM and Directory Server (DS) on Node1 where AM and DS are from JES5 or JES5u1 RR build. Portal is OpenPortal PS7.2 on top of AS9.1

2) Start the Container and Access /portal to make sure everything is installed fine on Node1

3) On Node3, install Gateway and AM-SDK and point to PS1. Make sure that one can login via gateway to PS1. Now we have basic set-up ready for with single Gateway and Portal Server without a Load Balancer. Now we are going to add complexity to it.

4) On Node2, install AS9.1. This is for creating AM and PS instances i.e AM2 and PS2

5) Login to AM1 amconsole via browser. As soon as you login to amconsole, you will see "Organization Aliases" listbox on the right side with entries <Node1.domain.com> and <domain>. In this listbox add <Node2.domain.com>.

6) Now click on Service Configuration -> Platform. On the right hand side there will be "Platform Server List" with entry <http://Node1.domain.com:port>. To this add one more entry <http://Node2.domain.com:port>

7) Install AM2 on Node2. Point to DS on Node1. Restart AS9.1 on Node2 and access amconsole to make sure that one can successfully login.

8) Now create portal instance PS2 on Node2. Install PS2 in config later mode. Modify Webcontainer.properties.SJSAS9.1 and run the below command

10) Install Load Balancer on Node4. This can be software or a hardware load balancer. You should know about how to make it SSL with certificates signed from Certificate Authority. Make sure that one can loadbalance AM and PS uris via this SSL instance of Load Balancer.

11) Access psconsole either on Node1 or Node2. Go to Secure Remote Access -> default. There is a listbox for "Portal Servers". Remove the existing entry in this listbox and add <https://Node4.domain.com:port/portal>. Below that there is listbix for "
URLs to which User Session Cookie is Forwarded". In this add below URLs and Save .